κέλυφος
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
According to Beekes, connected with the group of καλύπτω (kalúptō, “to cover”), with a Pre-Greek suffix.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ké.lyː.pʰos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈke.ly.pʰos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈce.ly.ɸos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈce.ly.fos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈce.li.fos/
Noun[edit]
κέλῡφος • (kélūphos) n (genitive κελῡ́φους); third declension
- sheath, case
- (botany) pod, shell
- (zoology) envelop of a chrysalis
- eggshell
- (anatomy) hollow of the eye
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κέλῡφος tò kélūphos |
τὼ κελῡ́φει tṑ kelū́phei |
τᾰ̀ κελῡ́φη tà kelū́phē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κελῡ́φους toû kelū́phous |
τοῖν κελῡφοῖν toîn kelūphoîn |
τῶν κελῡφῶν tôn kelūphôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κελῡ́φει tôi kelū́phei |
τοῖν κελῡφοῖν toîn kelūphoîn |
τοῖς κελῡ́φεσῐ / κελῡ́φεσῐν toîs kelū́phesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κέλῡφος tò kélūphos |
τὼ κελῡ́φει tṑ kelū́phei |
τᾰ̀ κελῡ́φη tà kelū́phē | ||||||||||
Vocative | κέλῡφος kélūphos |
κελῡ́φει kelū́phei |
κελῡ́φη kelū́phē | ||||||||||
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Derived terms[edit]
- κελῡφοκομεῖον (kelūphokomeîon)
- κελῡ́φᾰνον (kelū́phanon)
- κελῡφᾰνώδης (kelūphanṓdēs)
- κελῡ́φῐον (kelū́phion)
Descendants[edit]
- Greek: κέλυφος (kélyfos)
Further reading[edit]
- “κέλυφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κέλυφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κέλυφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek[edit]
Noun[edit]
κέλυφος • (kélyfos) n (plural κελύφη)
- shell (of mollusks, crustaceans, etc)
- eggshell
- nutshell
- shell, casing (around instrument or mechanism)
Declension[edit]
declension of κέλυφος
Synonyms[edit]
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension
- grc:Botany
- grc:Zoology
- grc:Anatomy
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek neuter nouns
- Greek nouns declining like 'έδαφος'